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surrogate mother

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Definition of surrogate mother

noun

  • 1a person or animal which takes on all or part of the role of mother to another person or animal.
  • 2a woman who bears a child on behalf of another woman, either from her own egg fertilized by the other woman’s partner, or from the implantation in her womb of a fertilized egg from the other woman.

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